Book #172 of 2021: Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain This is a remarkable and remarkably ambitious project, bringing together eighty prominent African American writers, from Angela Davis to Jamelle Bouie to Isabel Wilkerson, in order to pen a sweeping account of …
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Book Review: The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race edited by Jesmyn Ward
Book #156 of 2021: The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race edited by Jesmyn Ward Not every entry in this collection of essays and poems quite lands for me, but all told it’s a powerful reflection from various African American writers near the start of the Black Lives Matter movement and just …
Book Review: Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
Book #206 of 2020: Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson This title didn’t grip me right away, I think because I was expecting the sort of powerful testimony in author Isabel Wilkerson’s The Warmth of Other Suns, with its deep ethnographic dive into the lived experiences of a rarely discussed segment of …
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Book Review: The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
Book #185 of 2018: The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson An outstanding and meticulously-researched oral history of the Great Migration, in which millions of African Americans moved from the south to the north and west over the decades from World War I to around 1970. This …
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